Microsoft - Redmond, WA

posted 2 months ago

Full-time - Principal
Remote - Redmond, WA
Publishing Industries

About the position

Our team is seeking a Principal Applied Machine Learning Engineer to join us at Security. Security represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and state complexity. We aspire to make the world a safer place for all. We want to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a security cloud that protects them with end-to-end, simplified solutions. The Security organization accelerates our mission and bold ambition to ensure that our company and industry are securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers' heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal state. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. We are a research team of dedicated and innovative experts specializing in machine learning and artificial intelligence research for cybersecurity. We stand at the forefront of revolutionizing cybersecurity solutions in a rapidly evolving digital landscape where cyber threats persistently challenge the boundaries of security. Come and work with a team of world-class researchers and engineers who are passionate about advancing the state-of-the-art in cybersecurity and creating impactful solutions for customers. Help us build a culture of learning, growth, and inclusion, where everyone thrives and makes a difference in the security domain. Our mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees, we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and execute cutting-edge research projects in machine learning and artificial intelligence for cybersecurity, focusing on cloud security challenges and opportunities.
  • Serve as an expert within the team on changes in industry/market trends, products, industry advances, and opportunities in applied technologies across a broad range of applied research areas.
  • Communicate the results and impact of your research and development to senior leadership and external audiences through publications, presentations, and demos.
  • Write production-ready code to successfully deliver research projects into Artificial Intelligence (AI) products.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 6+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research) OR Master's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 4+ years related experience OR Doctorate in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years related experience OR equivalent experience.
  • 5+ years of hands-on experience in programming languages such as C#, Python.
  • Technical skills involving problem-solving, architecture design, and the ability to write high-quality production code.
  • Experience working with cross-functional teams, such as product managers, designers, researchers, engineers, and stakeholders, with good communication, collaboration, and leadership skills for translating research into a production service.
  • Ability to meet customer and/or government security screening requirements, including passing a Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Nice-to-haves

  • Master's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 9+ years related experience OR Doctorate in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 6+ years related experience OR equivalent experience.
  • 5+ years experience creating publications (e.g., patents, libraries, peer-reviewed academic papers).
  • 5+ years experience conducting research as part of a research program (in academic or industry setting).
  • 3+ years experience developing and deploying live production systems as part of a product team.
  • 3+ years experience developing and deploying products or systems at multiple points in the product cycle from ideation to shipping.
  • 2+ years experience presenting at conferences or other events in the outside research/industry community as an invited speaker.
  • Prior experience in Artificial Intelligence (AI) product development is preferred.
  • Prior experience with LLM (Large Language Model) /NLP (Natural Language Processing) is preferred.
  • Technical skills and knowledge in large language models, deep learning, transformer models, data engineering, cloud stack technologies, information fusion, large-scale machine learning models.
  • Ability to work effectively in a collaborative and fast-paced environment, and to adapt to changing priorities and feedback.
  • Ability to deal with ambiguity at work; identify research areas independently; shape the direction of research to product in a practical way.
  • Understanding of statistics, machine learning algorithms, and data visualization.
  • Independent and self-motivated.
  • Knowledge of cross-team and cross-org collaboration.

Benefits

  • Industry leading healthcare
  • Educational resources
  • Discount on products and services
  • Saving and investment
  • Maternity and paternity leave
  • Generous time away
  • Giving program
  • Opportunities to network and connect
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